Katharine Lee Bates
Who is Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.
Bates enjoyed close links with Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she had graduated with a B.A., and later became a professor of English literature, helping to launch American literature as an academic speciality, and writing one of the first-ever college textbooks on it. She never married, possibly because she would have lost tenure if she had. Throughout her long career at Wellesley, she shared a house with her close friend and companion Katharine Coman. Some scholars have assumed that this was a lesbian relationship, considering some e...
Read Full Biography
Katharine Lee Bates Poems
- The Great Twin Brethren
The battle will not cease
Till once again on those white steeds ye ride,
O heaven-descended Twins,
Before humanity's bewildered host.
...
- Three Steps
THREE steps there are our human life must climb.
The first is Force.
The savage struggled to it from the slime
And still it is our last, ashamed recourse.
...
- The Submarine That Sank The
SPINDRIFT white shall her victims stand
On the ivory quay, untrod
By living feet, when she nears Ghoststrand,
To point her out to God.
...
- The Morning Paper
Carnage!
Humanity disgraced!
Time's dearest toil effaced!
Poison gases and flame
...
- How Long?
How long, O Prince of Peace, how long? We sicken of the shame
Of this wild war that wraps the world, a roaring dragon-flame
Fed on earth's glorious youth, high hearts all passionate to cope
â??O Chivalry of Hope!â??
...
Read All Poems
Katharine Lee Bates Quotes
Read All Quotes
Comments about Katharine Lee Bates
- Pdsongbot: america the beautiful
music: samuel augustus ward, 1882
lyrics: katharine lee bates, 1895
- Samuelwr33: “love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” –katharine lee bates
- Nailburke: i had no idea there were so many verses to this song.
america the beautiful
- Pdsongbot: america the beautiful
music: samuel augustus ward, 1882
lyrics: katharine lee bates, 1895
- Iraborchijioke: into outer darkness, where
it shall be our doom to make
glory from each earth-mistake.
not archangels god elects
for celestial architects;
on the stones of hell, the guilt
of the world, is zion built.
katharine lee bates.
Read All Comments